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krina

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26 April 2012 can some one please tell me the diffrence between challan and invoice ?

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RAMESH KUMAR VERMA

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27 April 2012 INVOICE:

An invoice is essentially a detailed bill left by vendors and outside suppliers for goods or services rendered to a company. A typical invoice might list the quantity of each item, prices, billable hours, service description and a contact address for payment. While some expenses may be paid out of a general fund or petty cash account, an invoice is usually paid through an accounts payable department by the posted due date.

An invoice is a legal document which can be used as evidence of an incurred debt. The recipient of the goods or services can challenge the legitimacy of individual charges, but the invoice itself is considered a bona fide debt. Sometimes a vendor or serviceman cannot collect on a bill immediately, so their company will send an invoice at a later date for payment. The actual daily expense of a service may be so low that a company will simply wait for a larger invoice to cover all of the costs at once. Vending machine attendants and bottled water providers may only send one invoice a month instead of billing the company a few dollars a day for supplies

CHALLAN:

Challan is a specific format for depositing/remitting the contribution/statutory payment at bank/treasury.

challan is not only a receipt.it is a particular form for payment to the particular Govt. authority like EPFO, ESIC etc. but it includes receipt also.

in view of above, Challan is a mode of statuary deposit, which is showing the employer or whatever, deposit the dues,levied, payments to the department concerned.

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